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Bob Diachenko
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Names & Phone numbers of 267 million Facebook users exposed
Another day, another data breach putting the privacy of hundreds of millions of Facebook users at risk.
December 19, 2019
2.7 billion email addresses & plain-text passwords exposed online
In addition to email addresses and passwords, the records contained MD5, SHA1, and SHA256 hashes....
December 11, 2019
Database with 1.2 billion people’s data leaked online without password
In total, the database was home to over 4 terabytes of data sitting in plain sight for public access.
November 23, 2019
Leaky database exposes tax records of 20 million Russians
According to a report by Comparitech, more than 20 million tax records were found on an unprotected Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elasticsearch Cluste
October 1, 2019
New malware attack turns Elasticsearch databases into DDoS botnet
The malware attack involves two stages including one in which existing cryptomining malware is removed and other remove configuration files.
July 24, 2019
Unprotected MongoDB leaks 188m users’ data from sensitive search engine
Another day, another data breach...
July 10, 2019
Ride-hailing app leaks personal data of millions of Iranians
The ride-hailing app database was hosted on an insecure MongoDB server. Another day, another data breach – This…
April 25, 2019
Verifications.io breach: Database with 2 billion records leaked
Verifications.io breach is one of the largest data breaches but the good news is that it does not…
March 11, 2019
Dow Jones’ screening watchlist data exposed online
A database hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and owned by Dow Jones has accidentally been exposed putting…
March 1, 2019
Unprotected MongoDB leaks resumes of 202M Chinese job seekers
China is often suspected to sponsor hack attacks against organizations and agencies in the US or Europe. However,…
January 11, 2019